Roman Amoyan ( hy, Ռոման Ամոյան, born 3 September 1983) is an

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wrestler of

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descent. He is an Olympic bronze medalist, three-time World Championships medalist, and two-time European Champion. Amoyan received the Honored Master of Sports of Armenia title in 2009.

Early life

Roman was born in

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parents. He started wrestling in 1995 and became a Junior World Champion in 2001 and a Junior European Champion in 2002. He is uncle of

Malkhas Amoyan Malkhas Amoyan (born 22 January 1999) is an Armenian Greco-Roman wrestling, Greco-Roman wrestler. He won the gold medal in the men's 72kg event at the 2021 World Wrestling Championships held in Oslo, Norway, and he also won the gold medal in the ...

Career

Amoyan won the Olympic bronze medal at the

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in the Men's Greco-Roman 55 kg. Amoyan was Armenia's first Olympic medalist in wrestling in 16 years. He won a bronze medal in 2009 and a silver medal in 2010 at the World Wrestling Championships. Amoyan also won a gold medal in 2006 and three silver medals in 2003, 2005, and 2008 at the

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. Amoyan was a member of the Armenian Greco-Roman wrestling team at the 2010

Wrestling World Cup Wrestling World Cup is an international wrestling competition among teams representing member nations of the United World Wrestling (UWW) the sport's global governing body. The cups have been conducted by FILA (the UWW predecessor) every year sinc ...

. The Armenian team came in third place. Amoyan personally won a gold medal. In 2011, Amoyan was voted the Armenian Athlete of the Year. He had suffered a severe head injury early in the European Championships that year, but still bravely fought on, with a bloody wrapping on his head the whole time. Amoyan went on become a two-time European Champion despite the injury. He failed to qualify for the

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. Amoyan won another bronze medal at the World Championships in 2013 and another silver at the European Championships in 2016.

Personal life

Amoyan is married. His wife is a doctor. They have a daughter.

References

External links

Sports-Reference.com
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